My VE Day Memories
Electricity needs INERTIA
I just wonder if Loony Ed Milliband has ever heard of the ‘Spinning Grid’. Our entire National Grid Electricity Generating system was built around 500 ton turbine driven alternators, spinning at exactly 3,000 r.p.m. Originally, all our Power Stations had coal-fired boilers generating masses of superheated steam which then fed into massive spinning Turbines; which were connected directly to those huge Alternators: from whence came the electrical power to feed the Nation’s lights, businesses, homes, cities. The one thing which all these Power Stations had in common was ‘Inertia’. Just imagine the force, the delicate balancing of 500-ton rotating Alternator Rotors to spin at exactly 3,000 r.p.m. But once you have achieved that speed, it takes an awful lot of force to slow that ‘spinning’ rotor down from the magic 3,000 r.p.m. So, your Alternators are generating electricity at 50 Hertz (or Cycles per Second). The Grid Engineers knew that they could rely upon their ‘Spinning’ Power systems to deliver exactly what they were designed for,
But, in this magic industrialised land we used to inhabit, change is always necessary. Engineers were able to swap oil for coal in the nation’s Power Station boilers, and coal became less popular, although still necessary as a last standby source. Power stations with boilers fuelled entirely by oil became the new standard; and after North Sea Gas was discovered around our very own shores, the huge boilers were made redundant, as Gas-Fired Turbines were found to be both economical and extremely trustworthy. An extra benefit was found to be that the huge amounts of heat generated by the Gas Turbines could also be utilised as a secondary power source by piping that heat towards Steam Turbines which also drove more ‘Spinning Alternators’.
The reason why the ‘Spinning Grid’ has remained as the bedrock policy of power generation for nearly 80 years is because Electrical and Mechanical Engineers appreciate that the Electricity Supply to GB&NI is at 50 Hertz (or Cycles per Second). That is known in engineering terms as the frequency. If the engineers of the National Grid wish to bring on to the Grid another Power Station’s output, they know that the new Station’s engineers will have brought their new Generators up to speed and hence ‘Frequency’ and all the Grid engineers have to do is match the new ‘Power’ to the existing Grid ‘Power’; close the massive circuit breakers: and ‘Voila’, extra Power is instantly available if, say, its winter time, and people are cooking dinners, or switching lights or electric fires on, and the extra Power is seamlessly absorbed.
But there is always a ‘But’. Some well-meaning pseudo-scientists cam up with the lunatic idea of ‘Climate Change’, or blaming an apparent planet-wide temperature increase on mankind’s pumping Carbon Dioxide (or CO2) into the atmosphere from coal, oil and gas-fired Power Stations; and persuaded some gullible politicians that their theories were correct, that all this extra (apparent) heat was melting glaciers, and melting Arctic ice fields; thus meaning that all the ice would melt, and drive floods into our coastal cities, and: well, I don’t really need to go on, do I?
But, (there’s that ‘But) again; we still need electricity. Modern day life could not run without electric power. So those same pseudo-scientists came up with an idea: “What if we generate power from the wind?. Suddenly, a new Industry was born, making ever larger three-bladed wind generating sets, plant them on huge towers on hillsides where the wind is known to blow most of the time, and use THAT electricity instead of all that nasty Coal, Oil and Gas-Fired Electricity, which, in the new ‘Religion’ was not very nice to the planet. So they got politicians from all over to agree that CO2 wasn’t a ‘Nice thing’, and they should all build these wonderful new ‘Renewable’ wind turbines all over the landscape: oh, and just by-the-way; these Renewables are very costly to build and install, so the people who actually USE this wonderful Wind Power have to pay either three or four times the normal cost of Electricity, because its “SAVING THE PLANET” So these politicians of all colours huddled amongst themselves, and decided that they would simply MAKE people understand that it was simply necessary to have this really pricey ‘Renewable Electricity” because it was all about ‘Saving the Planet’ and stopping any more heat escaping; which over time became known as ‘NET ZERO’.
The ONE thing which politicians forgot, or possibly didn’t know was needed was that vital INERTIA. If a wind turbine, or even a field of turbines, has to switch itself off because ‘THE WIND IS TOO STRONG’, then there is nothing to take the place of the ‘Inertia’ which has suddenly disappeared.When a turbine-alternator string has to go offline, it is still there, spinning at 3,000 r.p.m. ready the be switched back into circuit. The problem with reliance on wind was demonstrated just few days ago when all of Spain, along with about half of Portugal, suffered massive blackouts is because Spain is now almost totally reliant upon wind energy for all their generation needs. It sounds similar to the South Australian blackout of 2016. Once a few wind or solar generators trip out for some reason, the voltage or frequency shocks in the system cause other generators to drop out and interconnectors to disconnect. There is no inherent stability in the system because they lack the heavy spinning turbines. Our entire national grids were designed around heavy 500 ton turbines which spin at 3,000 revolutions per minute (or 3,600 RPM in the USA). That’s an awesome amount of inertia, and all that stability was “free” — it was just part of the grid. But the subsidized market, and the pagan fixation on “renewables”, because they supposedly stop storms next century, guarantees that reliable turbines get pushed out of the market. The crazy-balloon has filled the room.
There were other avenues for electricity generation, such a nuclear power, but although the nuclear route could also be said ‘clean’ or ‘renewable’ the costs of such stations, and the super-expensive electricity generated therein, makes them unrealistic for future planning. There are also ‘Solar’ panels, which convert the sun’s heat into electricity, but they are mainly sourced from China, made with slave labour, and only popular with Loon Ed Milliband because the CO2 produced in their manufacture is made in China, and therefore they only take up vast acres of farmland, and Farmers don’t count anymore.
So here we are in England, with a Labour Party in Government, with all these truly expensive ‘Climate Change going on, and the Local Council Elections have just shown that if Sir Two-Tier Kier Starmer had ever thought that he and his Labour Party would govern on and on, the Reform UK Party have just demonstrated just how unpopular they really are. But will he change? Starmer isn’t daft, but is he wedded to the paths he has planned? The policies he and his Cabinet have decided upon are the most unpopular in decades, and the most unpopular are those which condemn British people to pay the highest prices for Electricity in the world. Loony Ed Milliband is in his element, a demagogue of the first water; but does Starmer have the courage to sack him, loosen the bonds on Oil and Gas exploration, allow Fracking for the trillions locked up in gas beneath our own land, and get Britain back on to a firm path towards a cheaper, warmer future?
We do not need this Suicide Bill
You turn your head to Emphasise a Point
The Word which they all shrink away from.
Wind Farm Fraud
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So why indeed are we paying compensation to former criminals?
We learn this morning that homosexuals who were justly dismissed from service in the past with Her Majesty’s Armed Forces because they broke the law against Homosexuals; are to receive compensation and possible restoration to the rank previously achieved.
My question is simply:Why?
They knew that they were breaking the Law when they were serving, they knew the consequences, but they did not resign, but instead waited until they were ‘outed’ before being dismissed from the Service they were serving in.
I repeat, they knew they were breaking the Law which governed their behaviour; so why on this Earth should we, as taxpayers, fund this weird ‘compensation’?
Don’t Drink The Bloody Milk
I got one thing wrong in this video. The Bovaer garbage is Injected into the cow, it is not consumed by the animal.
Sing Something Simple
I attended a classical concert the other evening. The music, which has always been the great ‘pull’ for me was great, as any live performance of Vivaldi’s by four superb musicians is promised. But as I sat, before the concert began, I realised that I was gazing at the result of maybe forty-odd years of change within our Nations in one thing which used to be essential, but now is virtually non-existent. That ‘one thing’? Religion.
Many years ago, religion stood firmly in my life. Raised in a Catholic family, went to Catholic schools, was a regular Church attendee, we almost expected a fortnightly visit from one or more of our Parish priests, we knew them all by their first names; in other words, the whole shebang. But times and attitudes change, at least to those who retain an enquiring mind. I retained my religious activities for years, but a mixture of scepticism and plain common sense made me question much of the works and workings of the Catholic Church. The end came, for myself, in two body blows. I learned of the massive shame of sexual abuse by Catholic Priests against children, and the extent that these crimes, were both known about and silently tolerated by the Catholic Hierarchy both in GB&NI as well as America. I also reacted whilst listening to a sermon from our parish priest. I heard this man, who has never had to do a proper job in his entire life, tell the congregation as we neared a General Election, that we should all be voting ‘Labour’, as the Tories were close to a course of ruining the Nation. I stood up, said my piece against the clown who dared to tell an Englishman how and who to vote for, and left that place, never to return.
But thats just me. So what was I looking at which indeed was a measure of the change, both on the Catholic and Church of England’s authority in Great Britain & Northern Ireland (GB&NI). The concert was held in the majestic main chapel of Ushaw Seminary College, where five Archbishops and a Cardinal, over some 150 years, came into the priesthood. By some reckoning, over 2,500 priests passed through those imposing buildings. But the Seminary itself closed in 2011, due to the lack of men prepared to enter the Catholic priesthood. This monumental series of buildings, which must have cost millions to build, now sells itself as a place for families to relax, as well as multifarious other activities.
The C of E, which is, to all extent the State Religion, fares not much better, and the Leadership, under the care of the former Archbishop Welby, is itself fractured by the constant push to accept homosexual marriage as ‘Acceptable’ to the Church Bishops and Laity.
So, apart from the Evangelical Churches favoured by some, what is the only religion which daily extends its sinister reach in every city and town in GB&NI? It is of course Islam. They tried to spread their ideology into the West before, and were successful in Spain for over two centuries before being thrown out: and the naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 at the Battle of Lepanto when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire.
But now we see, due solely to the machinations of Tony Blair’s Labour Government’s loosening of immigration rules and visas, a Muslim population of some 3 millions, with another 150,000 illegals also doing sweet fuck all and getting free lodgings, health care. Those Muezzin Calls will be creeping ever nearer, where once all that was heard was the sound of church bells ringing on a Sunday morning.
Text Message Warning.
There is a particularly nasty Scam texting Message going the rounds, and the Unwary should be warned.
I received a message regarding Winter Weather Payments, with a warning that the window for registration was fast closing, and the recipient should immediately click on the URL (Internet speak for an address) to begin the forms etc. It was very cleverly worded, and if one is not totally alert, the user may well find his or her bank accounts raided.
I also received a phone message purporting to be from a very well-known Domestic Appliance Warranty and Repair Company which I actually do business with, so I Listened, but when the woman said that she needed my Bank Sort Code and Account Numbers so they could “place the refund” cash, I realised that I was in receipt of a Scamming Call, so hung up.
You have to be very alert, as well as being very, very cautious these days..
‘And Your Sins will Seek You Out’
Along with many, almost too many to count; political commentators and analysts, I am attempting to discover the secret to that truly remarkable political victory by Donald Trump in yesterday’s Presidential Election.
As an Englishman, I hold a somewhat privileged position as far as USA politics go, in that I have read and studied both American politics and politicians by virtue of their speeches, statements and actions; without having any of their many activities resounding too much on either my country, or myself as an individual. A quotation from that inspiring and gifted writer Tom Clancy stated “Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”
America is an Idea. America is complicated. When the Founding Fathers, those far-sighted men who sat and argued for months before that truly amazing Document which commenced “We, the People”, the proposed Constitution of that brand new Nation; the United States of America, they were determined to avoid, as far as could then be foreseen, the pitfalls and mistakes which had either frozen or altered beyond recognition many of the mainly European nations which existed when those men were preparing Revolution. Their grievances were many, with the Stamp Act, a tax system to make the Colonies pay for the war which to pay off the enormous war debt that the crown had incurred, first amongst many. King George together with his Government, felt that since the war started in North America, the English subjects living there should play a major role in paying for it. In 1765, the King’s newest Prime Minister, Lord George Grenville, introduced the Stamp Act, sparking a wave of protests in all thirteen colonies. The force and intensity of the protests shocked both the King and Parliament, forcing a repeal: and the Founding Fathers determined that their solution was to overthrow the shackles laid upon them by the British Government, with a citizen Army, which ultimately was successful.
Continue reading “‘And Your Sins will Seek You Out’”Death: Where Is Thy Sting?
I write today about an addiction. That addiction is for Tobacco, for smoking, for chewing, for inhaling the deadly carcinogens which have been proven, time and time again, which this addiction holds, promises and delivers.
As with all things, I must be honest. I smoked. Either cigarettes or pipe tobacco, for almost thirty five years. I smoked when in the Merchant Navy, I smoked when living in South Africa, when buying a thirty pack of smokes, was cheaper than when buying duty-free in an airport shop. I tried to give up once when my eldest brother came visiting, along with my mother; but failed when in a restaurant filled with smoke.
I determined to leave South Africa when I saw the early signs of the movement towards Black Majority rule in that once wonderful country, and; when seeing the vast difference between South Africa prices for a pack of cigarettes, and for the same in Great Britain & Northern Ireland, a rise of some 250%. This for a family man with a growing family, was something I literally could not afford.
So I, along with my wife, stopped smoking, just like that. It was not easy, for almost three weeks, I was like a bear with a sore head, but, as I wrote, I rediscover my senses of taste and of smell; I was free of a killer addiction, because: along with the nicotine comes the deadly fumes which almost guarantee cancer.
I note that this ridiculous So-Called Labour Government is proceeding with the same plan excavated by the Tories, which attempts to ban anyone of a certain age from buying cigarettes. Don’t they realise that ordinary British reaction to any Authority trying to ban anything is to make that same thing more desirable.
The only proven method, as far as I can tell, to limit cigarette smoking is to price it almost beyond the average smoker’s reach in terms of pure cash.
Smoking is an addiction, pure and simple. The whole anti-smoking industry, and it IS an INDUSTRY, is based upon the fallacy that human beings can be weaned off of this deadly addiction slowly, either by Vaping, or by the purchase of various filters which can be ‘proven’ to lessen the urge to to smoke.
GB&NI’s biggest killer is tobacco, and, unfortunately, the ONLY WAY to come off that deadly habit is to stop buying those deadly sticks at one shot. Your wallet, your family, your very life and future depends upon it!
Life Ain’t a Bed of Roses
In entertainment value, to me at least, the caterwauling of so-called pop songs dials zero. My musical interests, with very, very few exceptions, are entirely within the Classical Music sphere.
But I heard this morning of the death of Liam Payne, of the One Direction pop group, and I suddenly realised I had watched a film which, I firmly believe, was certainly based around Liam Payne’s early success as a pop star.
The film was called ‘Forever My Girl’. The ending was of course different to real life, with the singer marrying his childhood sweetheart, and singing along with his newly discovered daughter.
The evidence? Possibly circumstantial, but in the film, the singer suddenly becomes super-famous, and disappears into cloud of recordings, performances, booze and drugs. In real life, after the appearance on the X-Factor show, they were literally taken over, and their families didn’t get to see them for months on end, as was stated on the radio.
Me? As I said,, very few exceptions, and that film was one of them. No Mozart, but a good story, backed up with some believable Country music.
Death, where is thy Sting?
My mate James, over on Orphans of Liberty, very recently wrote a polemic about how the elderly and old are treated in this wonderful ‘caring’ world which is Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
As I qualify on all counts as regards treatment, I’ll give a couple of instances which proves that, whilst the message states that we are looked after from cradle to grave; in reality? Not So Much!
I point to two items, one in my own deeply personal life, the other in the quagmire which ruled during the first, second and subsequent lockdowns, and was directly aimed at mainly old and elderly people.
As many may recall, I lost my wife Jacqueline to an NHS Hospital Regime which a) sets in written and approved terms, its rules as to the disposition regarding the aftercare of (mainly) elderly or frail patients: and then blithely disregards just about every category, every so-called ‘Red Line’ written: BECAUSE THEY CAN. They said that there was a Document which ruled how they treated patients if that patient suffered a heart attack.
That document, which is birthed in the manner which a group of Consultants study the file and medical records and physical health of every patient. This is called the DNACPR, or DO NOT ATTEMPT CARDIO PULMONARY RESUSCITATION. If the Recovery STATISTICS point towards a patients inability to successfully withstand any type of resuscitation; those same Consultants sign that Document: and if there is a heart attack; then NOTHING further is authorised: THE PATIENT IS LEFT TO DIE! They did this in my wife’s case, they did approximately the same in many hundreds, perhaps thousands of other patients; and they got away with this mass slaughter because no one was allowed to visit any hospital patient before, during and definitely after treatment was over.
They wrote the medical records, no-one could challenge them because they write the history, and if anyone made any errors, it was covered up, no-one was disciplined. I only found out about the DNACPR on my wife’s file because I saw it on the records sent to the Coroner.
I went to the Inquest, and made such a stir that I was granted an adjournment for a second Inquest. I did my very best for the memory of my Jacqueline: but all I achieved was to give my side of events as part of a hospital teaching video. I even contacted the Ombudsman. All that achieved was a letter saying the Hospital Trust understood my loss!
The ONLY concrete fact who emerged right at the very end of my investigations was the truth that this LEGALLY ALL-POWERFUL DNACPR DOCUMENT which covered my wife’s singular LACK of Treatment; had somehow disappeared, and failed to be located, despite a search lasting days.
The other item was the manner in which literally THOUSANDS of Patients were decanted from their hospital beds and sent to ill-prepared care homes WITHOUT BEING TESTED, and thousands died because the ‘experts’ reckoned there was no risk.
A Christmas Gift from The Labour Party
The Sad Truths of my Country
The Only Defence against Allergy Claims
Every Restaurant/Cafe/Coffee shop should be able to post a PROMINENT notice stating:-
This Restaurant/Cafe/Coffee Shop does not, and will not, cater for those people with Allergies.
If you, or members of your Party have an allergy, do not come here because you will not be served.
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First they were Aborigines; Now they’re First
I watched the first episode of an Australian Police-type drama on the Beeb called High Country yesterday evening, and, in both production credits as well as some of the dialogue, there appeared to be a good portion of ‘Woke’ around. From my earliest days in Australia, now some fifty-odd years ago, the brown or black peoples were known as Aborigines. Everyone used the term, no-one was being offensive, the term was accepted, and it worked.
But now, suddenly: They’re all First Nation people. Since when?
Conspiracy? You can bet on a certainty!
I am of an age which can clearly recall exactly what I was doing, and where I was, when told of the assassination of President Jack Kennedy. I was seated on the top deck of a bus heading homewards from a day in Durham City whilst on leave from my ship. That act, 61 years later, is considered to be a Turning Point in the History of America. Many still see the whole thing as a conspiracy, with the assassin himself gunned down whilst being transferred from a jail cell, shot down by an allegedly-distraught club owner. This guy was found guilty of the murder, sentenced to death, but freed on appeal because of inconsistent evidence. He died from a pulmonary embolism, whilst suffering from cancer.
There have been literally millions of post on X-Twitter regarding the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the former President, many of those, even so early, are full of speculation and of conspiracy. But one post caught my eye, mainly because the X-Poster made her case rationally, and certainly opened up a discussion.
I commented on the X-Post as follows:- A very pertinent question, which provokes only two replies. a) that the pre-rally Security sweep was performed by morons, or b) that there was a plot to remove The Donald; and it only failed because he moved his head just before the bullet reached its target!
The mass of almost hysterical denunciation of this one man stinks of both desperation and collusion. When you get Joe Biden, the President of the United States, saying STUFF LIKE THIS, then the possibility of either direct or indirect action from shrouded forces becomes ever real.
If I were a fly on the office wall of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas , I’d be hearing him designating a new Head of the Secret Service as of yesterday, get rid of these useless women agents, and mandate a beefed-up Detail to protect the Man who is now more than likely to become the next President
The BIG Lie
The ‘BIG Lie’ is being revealed even as we watch
This morning, I write as a seasoned observer of the American political scene, of the main players; and of how Mainland America is served by both those players, and the news media which is supposed to tell America what is being said and done in their name.
There must be thousands of observers such as I who watched in silence as the slow but steady decline of President Biden’s faculties became apparent, from many social media channels, but none of this was ever recorded or published by any one of the American Mainstream Media, loyal as they always have been to the Democratic Party. As I wrote way back in 2021 on the sudden silencing of a Presidential broadcast, “Were the Dems just worried about the Virus, or were they worried that the Big Lie would be discovered?”
If CNN or ABC News had broadcast even the hints of Sleepy Joe’s erratic speech and behaviour earlier, America would at least have been warned of even the whisper of a problem within the Biden White House.
But no, the big boys of broadcast and print stayed loyally silent, we who knew some of the truth were ignored, and America knew little of the landslide which was poised to fall upon the Democratic Party, and its President who was also it’s Nominee for the next Election. Given a well-ordered and well-written speech, aided by both teleprompters and wi-fi earphones, Joe Biden managed to carry off many visits and activities, but the hesitations, the strange silences were being noticed, but always they were played down and excused.
And then came the first Presidential Debate, between ex-President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. And here we were told that the rules laid out by the broadcaster CNN were to be followed, with muted microphones preventing cross-talking, and the Debate moderators being from CNN. Trump’s demand that Joe be subjected to a check to see if he’d been given drugs was waved away, as was the demand that the President’s ears be examined for wi-fi earphones.
The awful truth about the extent of Joe Biden’s mental problems became apparent almost immediately, with the incoherent ramblings of what was immediately seen as a man who was suffering from some form of senile dementia came blasting through the t.v screens and speakers of an estimated 51.7 million people, with countless millions more watching the streamed content. CNN’s debate rules even benefited Trump, as he was forced to remain silent during Joe’s rambling answers, as all he had to do was keep a straight face, and bend his head so as to view the wreckage from the other podium.
The demands for a changed Nominee began about seven milliseconds after the debate ended, and the call have become ever more vociferous, as some House Democrats and now a Democratic Senate have made their wishes known. It is unlikely to see a change, as the President’s wife has got used to the White House bedrooms, as well as the use of Air Force One. No-one has actually asked her, as an unelected anything, where she got the authority to sit in the Presidential jet, as well as to deliver speeches in her husband’s name: but maybe someone will remind her that she ain’t the Boss: well, just maybe.
But here’s the question which I am fairly certain no-one so far has had the sheer audacity to ask. When will the whole of Mainstream Media, all the talking heads and so-called knowledgeable one, admit that they had seen the slow onset of Joe Biden’s problems, and had decided that America should not know of the crisis which was descending onto President Biden’s shoulders?
Its on the Fourth of July
MY BROADCAST NAME IS GRANDPA1940, BUT FOR THIS VIDEO, I SPEAK WITH MY REAL BIRTH NAME MIKE CUNNINGHAM
I HAVE CREATED A FEW VIDEOS OVER THE YEARS, SOME OF WHICH FEATURED MY REACTION TO THE DEATH OF MY BELOVED JACQUELINE; BUT THIS TIME, I SPEAK ONLY OF POLITICS
IT HAS BEEN SAID, OVER THE YEARS THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM IS, BROADLY A NATION OF THE RIGHT, BUT HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY EITHER LEFT-WING, CENTRIST OR MILDLY RIGHT GOVERNMENTS FOR A CENTURY.
WE WERE NOT DUE TO HAVE AN ELECTION UNTIL THE LATE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, BUT THE UNELECTED PRIME MINISTER, A SLIPPERY MAN OF HINDU INDIAN ORIGIN, FACED WITH DIRE POLLING NUMBERS DUE MAINLY TO THE MISHANDLING OF BRITAIN’S BORDERS AND ECONOMY, DECIDED TO GO FOR A VIRTUALLY INSTANT ELECTION, AS HE COULD SEE THAT THE ECONOMY WAS EMERGING, AND HE THOUGHT HE COULD GET SUFFICIENT ELECTORAL COVER TO EASE A NARROW VICTORY, EVEN KNOWING THE DIRE POLLING NUMBERS WHICH HE FACED.
BUT HERE’S THE TWO THINGS WHICH COULD NOT HAVE FIGURED IN HIS CALCULATIONS a)HE FORGOT ABOUT THE WISHES OF 17.4 MILLIONS OF BRITISH VOTES WHICH HAD DEMANDED BREXIT, AND HAD INSTEAD BEEN HANDED A MISH-MASH CREATED BY THERESA MAY, BORIS JOHNSON AND THE FELLOW TRAVELLERS OF THE FOREIGN AND CABINET OFFICES, and b) HE ALSO FORGOT THAT ONE SINGLE MAN ALSO RECALLED WHAT HAD BEEN PROMISED, AND WAS AGGRIEVED AT THE BETRAYAL OF THE WISHES OF THE BREXIT VOTERS.
WHEN MARGARET THATCHER WAS DEPOSED AS PRIME MINISTER, WE LOST THE MOST ABLE POLITICAL MIND WHICH HAD SERVED HER COUNTRY IN A CENTURY. TRUE, SHE HAD TAKEN UP THE POLL TAX, AND HAD LOST THAT BATTLE, BUT SHE SHOULD HAVE SAILED ON, TAKING HER COUNTRY WITH HER, BUT SHE WAS STABBED IN THE BACK BY HER ADVISERS, AND WAS VOTED OUT, WITH A NONENTITY TAKING HER PLACE.
HIS RULE SOON BECAME CHAOTIC, AND WAS SUPPLANTED BY THAT SUPREME LIAR BLAIR, WHOSE RULE GAVE US THE DEVOLVED ADMINISTRATIONS OF SCOTLAND,WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND. IT WAS ALSO BLAIR WHO GAVE IN TO THE TERRORISTS, AND HANDED THE KEYS OF STORMONT TO THE BLOOD-SOAKED HANDS OF SINNFEIN/IRA. BUT WHAT WAS UNNOTICED WAS A LOOSENING OF THE VERY BORDERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, WITH EASY VISA ACCESS TO VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO ASKED. 21/2 MILLIONS CAME AS MIGRANTS IN FIVE YEARS.
IN ANOTHER VIRTUALLY UNNOTICED PLACE, A YOUNG UNKNOWN BARRISTER GAINED A WIN IN COURT, WHICH PROVIDED BENEFITS, ACCOMMODATION AND SUSTENANCE TO THOSE ILLEGAL MIGRANTS WHO HAD GAINED OUR SHORES IN THE BACKS OF EIGHTEEN-WHEELER TRUCKS. HIS NAME WAS KEIR STARMER
DAVID CAMERON LEAD THE 2010 ELECTION SURGE WHICH ENDED THE BLAIR/BROWN YEARS, AND THAT PARTICULAR POLITICAL ANIMAL, KNOWING HIS PAYMASTERS IN BIG BUSINESS WISHED IT, NEVER EVEN ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE OR LESSEN THE LEGAL MIGRANT FLOW, BECAUSE THEIR PRESENCE KEPT WAGES DOWN FOR BRITISH WORKERS, WHO COULD NOT COMPETE WITH THE LOW WAGES PAID TO MIGRANTS. HE PROMISED TO LOWER MIGRATION TO THE ‘TENS OF THOUSANDS’, BUT NEVER MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO CHANGE ANYTHING
TRAPPED INTO HOLDING A REFERENDUM ABOUT BRITAIN LEAVING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, CAMERON THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EASY WIN. AFTER ALL HE HAD WESTMINSTER, BIG BUSINESS, ALL THE UNIONS, MOST OF THE TV AND MEDIA BEHIND HIM, HE HAD A MASSIVE OPERATION, AND HE LOST IT BY ALMOST SIX PERCENT OF THE VOTE, NUMBERING 17.4 MILLIONS.
THE DISASTROUS THERESAY MAY PREMIERSHIP BEGAN, AND ENDED WITH THE PROPOSED BREXIT DEAL WHICH HANDED NORTHERN IRELAND INTO THE EU’S HANDS, BECAUSE OF THE IRISH BORDER. BORIS JOHNSON LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH, AND THEN SEALED THE OPPOSITE, WITH HIS BREXIT BORDER DEALS. NO MENTION AT ALL OF THAT PROMISE TO LOWER MIGRATION TO THE ‘TENS OF THOUSANDS’
WITHING THE MAY-JOHNSON-TRUSS-SUNAK GOVERNMENTS, NOTHING WAS DONE TO KEEP ANY OF THE BREXIT PROMISES ON OUR BORDERS, OUR FISHERIES, OUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES: NOTHING AT ALL.
SUNAK SAW HIS CHANCES OF A SECOND TERM DISAPPEARING, AS THE POLLS TOLD THE TALE THAT SAW LABOUR GAINING A TWENTY POINT LEAD, MAINLY BECAUSE OF TORY MISTAKES, AND, INCIDENTALLY, VERY LITTLE BECAUSE OF ACTUAL LABOUR POLICIES. HE CALLED THE ELECTION FOR JULY 4TH, AND THAT WAS HIS FINAL MISTAKE, BECAUSE HE HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THE MAN WHO, SINGLE HANDEDLY, HAD WON TWENTY FIVE SEATS IN THE EU PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS, AND ALSO, BY WITHDRAWING HIS BREXIT PARTY CANDIDATES FROM THREE HUNDRED SEATS, HANDED BORIS JOHNSON HIS EIGHTY SEAT MAJORITY IN THE COMMONS. THAT MANS NAME WAS NIGEL FARAGE.
SUNAK CALLED FOR A SIX WEEK ELECTION. FARAGE, WHO WAS THEN A FULL TIME BROADCASTER WITH GB NEWS, AND ALSO THE HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE REFORM PARTY, THIS BEING THE RENAMED BREXIT PARTY, SAW HIS MOMENT, RIGGED A DEAL WHICH MADE HIM THE REFORM LEADER, WITH RICHARD TICE AS HIS MATE, AND BEGAN THE CHARGE WHICH HAS SEEN HIS PARTY CHANGE FROM A STEADY 7 % IN THE POLLS TO, IN THE SPACE OF 21/2 WEEKS; TO AN ASTOUNDING 17%, LEVEL PEGGING WITH THE TORIES, AND IN ONE POLL, A TRULY AMAZING 24%.
IT IS TRUE THAT RICHARD TICE BEARS THE GREATER SHARE OF HOW REFORM WAS READY TO GO WITH ALMOST 600 CANDIDATES, IT IS AMAZING THAT HE STUCK WITH THAT JOB, BUT TICE IS A BUSINESSMAN AND A GOOD SPEAKER; BUT HE LACKS THE MAGNETISM OF FARAGE.
WE SEE REFORM’S FARAGE ON TV, TIK-TOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, EVERYWHERE. HE IS A MAN THAT I THINK IS A SAFE REPOSITORY FOR OUR TRUST AS VOTERS; REFORM’S ‘CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE’ HOLDS VERY LITTLE WHICH CANNOT BE ACHIEVED: AND IF ENOUGH PEOPLE LISTEN TO THE LIKES OF ME, AND MANY THOUSANDS OF OTHER VOICES, HE MIGHT GET INTO WESTMINSTER THIS TIME, BUT IN 2029, HE WILL GET INTO 10 DOWNING STREET
The Shores of Normandy
Does the youth of today, the Tik-Tok generation, understand why the whole of the South Coast of England was stuffed full of tanks, of batteries of artillery, of trucks parked along every country road for miles and miles?
Do they really understand why men such as my father and hundreds of thousands like him, signed up for Service?
I really doubt it very, very much!
Strange: or Suspect
As must be fairly obvious, either from my photo, or my Online Name, I am a Pensioner. And as a Pensioner, I watched, with some perturbation, as the time drew close towards the latter part of last year, when the calculations are made which determine what kind of rise the normal State Pension would be. As it turned out, the increase was calculated to be just over 8%, which made a significant bump in the Pension payments to people such as myself.
And lo and behold, as from the 1st of April, the 8% extra small but significant slice came automatically into my bank account. For which I am duly grateful.
But here’s the ‘Suspect’ bit. I shop at one supermarket, and my purchases, these months and weeks, tend to be much the same in most minor things, with the occasional bump when, say, an appliance needs replacement. I also, possibly because I had to check on the spending on major contracts when still working, keep a very simple spreadsheet of my monthly spending. Now we all, or most of us, are aware of the need to allow or account for inflation, especially for those of us on limited incomes; as we are constantly reminded by this so-called Government, that they are ‘winning’ the battle against inflation. But checking, as I can do on my basic spending, I came across something which I do feel can be labelled “Suspect”.
Since the last week in February, my weekly outgoing spending on basic necessities, has slowly but remorselessly increased to level off at 7.95% above that February total.
Funny? Nope. Funny Peculiar? Definitely
The Invasion Has Already Occurred
As some may remember, I am one of England’s many authors, with eight books to my name. I am, unfortunately, also one of the many unsuccessful English authors, if success is termed in books sold or read. But I don’t really mind, because the writing, the establishing of a theme, a plot, expanding the reader’s knowledge of the imagined heroes’ or heroines’ lives, how my writing flows: that, for me, is the finest achievement possible. The one novel which came near a printing works was also the one which I felt proudest of, because it was about British politics, about what could happen, given the manner in which the early theme occurred. That novel was entitled ‘Single to Westminster, via Berlin’, and it documented the rise to ultimate power of a former right-wing thug; of the changes in both his life, and in his ideas of politics, how those changes came about, and how he coped with those changes. This book was written and published in 2009.
One of the main drives in our hero’s progress was illegal immigration, and, in those days of my novel, our continued membership of the European Union. I had watched, in real life, the beginnings of the Blair actions to loose, beyond all bounds, immigration; with the vast majority coming from the European Union as it expanded eastwards. This itself in the beginning was not so bad, because certainly the Polish migrants came with a reputation for hard work, and because most of those migrants were simply ‘like us’. They worshipped as we did, they looked as we did, they accepted that they were the incomers, and had to adapt to our ways of life. Unfortunately, besides the educated migrants of Northern and Eastern Europe, we also saw the beginnings of Labour’s plan to alter the very nature of our society, by importing ever-increasing numbers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and from the Middle-East: all of those thousands worshipping a different god to ours.
Now when I write of a different god, I write of Islam. Islam is not only a religion, it is a political force. It is also a proselytising religion, in that its adherents actively push to get others, from any other religion, to accept their god, and also to accept that their prophet Mohammed, spoke and speaks for them all. The followers of Islam are also pretty canny when it comes to politics, as can be seen by the muslim london mayor, the muslim scots first minister, many Labour politicians but not many Tory ones: I just wonder why. But, returning to migration both legal and illegal, we see not only the Blair processes being embedded into our society, but the asylum laws themselves are being twisted every way possible, by both the illegal asylum seekers themselves, and by both left-wing lawyers and Members of Parliament. As I wrote some time back on one of my own blogsite postings:-
“Certainly, sir, if you could just point to the document which shows and confirms that you were on patrol with British soldiers in Helmand province, acting as an interpreter, and your stay will be immediately confirmed, as agreed and formally accepted by the newly-appointed Muslim Home Secretary.”
Afghani man: “Whilst I cannot truthfully state that I was a member of that brave group who kept their faces hidden at all times for fear of retribution, I can confirm that the second cousin of my fourth brother’s third wife worked as a cook for a cobbler who regularly repaired British Army Interpreters’ footwear. The word got around, and the threats of instant retribution against all collaborators came for us all, so we decided to flee, and here we are.”
The Prime Minister himself sounded almost proud of his Government’s actions when he confirmed that, literally “Thousands of Afghans have been transported safely to our shore”. The stupid, dangerous and downright lunatic thinking of this so-called Tory Government is best observed in its alleged attempt to ‘DEAL’ with the thousands pouring over the channel on ever-larger rib-dingies; with its Rwanda Bill. That farrago has so far cost over £400 million pounds, and not one ‘effing asylum seeker has boarded an aircraft bound for Rwanda.
If my readers have viewed the same YouTube videos as myself, you will no doubt have seen, in towns and cities all across this once green and pleasant land, the fruits of the Blair ideals to change Great Britain; and they are not very pleasant sites to view. With literally regiments of muslim men, all stripped to the waist, performing whatever they wish, waving their bloody arms around like demented dervishes, and; again literally, not a single policeman in sight. Why, you may ask? Its is simply because those policemen know that they will be either laughed at, or mobbed; so why even take the chance. Now if it were a single Christian preacher, attempting to read from his own Testament; you’d see six heavies along to whip him away within minutes. I have also seen the many instances of muslim men blocking roads and pavements because they get the ‘urge to pray’, and the only police visible are those ensuring no-one gets to vent annoyance at what is now a “Fait Accompli’.
The single most scary photograph I have seen in over forty-odd years of viewing things political is simply the one from a gathering in Birmingham in 2023 which says: “We’re here to Stay, so you’d better get used to it”
Football, Dylan, and other lunacies
As a young man, I did consider pushing on and going to achieve a University education, but sometimes circumstances overrule plans; so instead went into an Apprenticeship (in the days when that term really meant something) in a mixed factory complex; attended Technical College on a day-release programme to bolster and gain both experience and knowledge. I sometimes wondered what my life would have been like if I had pushed on to a University Degree, but looking back is never going to change things. I chose a British Merchant Navy life, and then I realised exactly how much more I had to learn; because on a ship, all problems electrical come straight to the Electrical Engineer: and you fixed them, because there is no-one else. I don’t regret my choice of life, because otherwise I would not have met the love of my life, we married after I had laid siege to her: we had three kids, a good life, marred only by a mental illness which gripped my love. I lost her after 53 years of marriage; lost her to an NHS hospital which simply did not care; and she was left to die, alone and not comforted.
But the bitterness eases with time, and life does go on regardless; along with all the foolishness which has come to stand as ‘Just another Lunacy’ to those of us who shake their heads in silent disbelief at the sheer stupidity of many if not most of the ‘Woke’ biblical philosophies which are thrown at us almost every day. I was listening to the BBC Today programme this morning, and a slot came where Bob Dylan’s life and early years was being discussed, and I literally stopped in my tracks at hearing that there was an American University Degree Course in Studying Bob Dylan’s works, music and lyrics: now I always thought that, at my ripe old age, I had heard everything: but hearing lectures about Bob Dylan?
But worse was to follow, because further along in the Today Sports schedule, was a piece about how Nottingham Forest F.C. had been deducted some League points because of financial irregular actions deemed to be outside the norm. The club was said to be appealing against the deduction because it would place them in the Relegation area. Now this must be fascinating to those unfortunates whose religion is Football; but the rest of us? The true lunacy was to follow, as the man asked to comment upon Nottingham’s travails was announced as a Senior Lecturer in Football Finance at Liverpool University.
I rest my case
My New Voting Campaign
For those who either do not understand, or do not WISH to understand; my campaign would stop the Muslim households whose males routinely complete and write their female family members voting papers, then seal and submit them as though those female voters had chosen their votes themselves.
Fire, Pillage & Plague 
